[gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems

2006-02-12 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I installed Gentoo 2005.1.r1 the first time on a hd. I used a stage 3 downloaded from teh internet. But I fear, I haven't understand a certain aspect of emerge not correctly. The problems arised as I tried to update the installed gcc-3.4.3 to gcc-4.02. I understood, that this is

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems

2006-02-12 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, Hi I installed Gentoo 2005.1.r1 the first time on a hd. I used a stage 3 downloaded from teh internet. But I fear, I haven't understand a certain aspect of emerge not correctly. The problems arised

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems

2006-02-12 Thread Robert Crawford
If downloading time and cost are a concern, you might not get the real benefits of Gentoo, and maybe should consider a binary distro. Anyway, if you wish to install stuff not in portage (almost everything is), you need to employ portage overlays you create yourself in /usr/local/portage- an

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems

2006-02-12 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:58:22 +0100 Hi Rafael ! Thank you for your reply ! :) Are there any issues regarding Gcc-4.** ?? I am asking since my current system uses

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 07:26 -0600, John Jolet wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:03 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: On 2/10/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fdisk -l no!!! Even easier: waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096,

[gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
Hi list, This is about my struggle to make my Trust 514DX soundcard work with Linux. This is expected to be supported in Linux [alsa-project.org] and I have read other testimonials on the net. To cut a long story short, the card worked in Windows. It gives fantastic sound output with DVDs and

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
Iain Buchanan wrote: You can't just mount the puppy either (and let mount do the work) Are you sure? While using Gentoo's installation disks, I have successfully mounted the disk partitions without caring to tell the installation linuxrc as to what formatting was provided. it mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:53 +, Rohit Sharma wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: You can't just mount the puppy either (and let mount do the work) Are you sure? While using Gentoo's installation disks, I have successfully mounted the disk partitions without caring to tell the installation

[gentoo-user] [OT] taste's like love, feels like a TIVO?

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
Is it just me, or does that recent Magic Dirt release sound like Tastes like love, feels like a TIVO? Every time I listen, that's what I hear! Maybe I should write to TIVO and tell them to use the song on their ads... Maybe I should get off the computer on a Sunday night... -- Iain Buchanan

[gentoo-user] USB hub problem

2006-02-12 Thread Tamas Sarga
Hi, I've got a problem with my USB hub. It is included in an LG 795FT Plus CRT monitor. With gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 it works like a charm, but with later kernel it has a problem. I tried it with gentoo-sources and vanilla-sources too. The problem is that, it gives kernel hub 1-0:1.0:

Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions

2006-02-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Francesco Riosa wrote: Someone, somewhere, one time told me that lvm could address that in some manner but I've never seen how. Easy - with LVM, you (ideally) don't create any partitions. Instead, you create so called logical volumes (LVs). On those LVs, you the filesystems. Alexander Skwar

Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions

2006-02-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Shawn Haggett wrote: LVM would indeed be a solution. Instead of creating many disk partitions, you would simply create one large one the size of the disk. Yes, you could. But if you go that way, you don't have to create any partitions at all. Instead, you can also use /dev/hda with LVM. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 and KAudiocreator

2006-02-12 Thread Stewart Taylor
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Ah, yes, I remember that now, sorry for doubting you. Funny, I used it at one time, but I don't need it now. Instead I use the attached shell script after ripping, that you may modify for your purposes. Thanks for the script, I'll give it a try, I had just

Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions

2006-02-12 Thread Jarry
Alexander Skwar wrote: Shawn Haggett wrote: LVM would indeed be a solution. Instead of creating many disk partitions, you would simply create one large one the size of the disk. Yes, you could. But if you go that way, you don't have to create any partitions at all. Instead, you can also use

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems

2006-02-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: In my /usr/portage there were files concerning gcc-4.02 (and even gcc-4.1.beta*). But they were silently ignored. Of course. First emerge eix. Then run 'eix -e gcc'. You will see: ... *4.0.2-r3 *4.1.0_beta20060203 From 'man eix' you will learn what the *

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

2006-02-12 Thread Paulo J. Matos
I really wonder what type of hardware is the guy using to be able to run all that. :) Paulo Matos On 11/02/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 February 2006 22:56, Tim Igoe wrote: I guess it was referring to the thread on the Gentoo forums

[gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Maarten
Hi I have not been impressed by the handling of configfiles (updating them) by neither etc-update nor dispatch-conf, so I pondered on an alternative. Not an alternative to those packages, but some extra help, possibly integrated into one of those tools. Please bear with me... What tickles me

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-12 Thread Franta
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:04 -0200, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 2/4/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said. It wont be SicroMoft. I'm still wondering. At this time of writing I reduced the possibilities to Slackware or LFS. I know, I'll need to do some work to get things running but if

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems

2006-02-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 12 February 2006 09:56, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:58:22 +0100 Hi Rafael ! Thank you for your reply ! :) Are there any issues

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 14:37 +0100, Maarten wrote: Hi I have not been impressed by the handling of configfiles (updating them) by neither etc-update nor dispatch-conf, so I pondered on an alternative. Not an alternative to those packages, but some extra help, possibly integrated into one of

[gentoo-user] OT - procmail: Error while writing to /var/log/procmail

2006-02-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
What are the permissions of /var/log/procmail supposed to be? I get a log of Returned Mail emails griping about mail sent to accounts that exist on my server box (the content of which also comes without the error message). All the error emails contain procmail: Error while writing to

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/12/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:04 -0200, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 2/4/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said. It wont be SicroMoft. I'm still wondering. At this time of writing I reduced the possibilities to Slackware or LFS. I know, I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - procmail: Error while writing to /var/log/procmail

2006-02-12 Thread William Kenworthy
Depending on how its set up, procmail will run with the permissions of the user/script/mailer calling it. Maybe postfix, or individiual users etc. Your logfile is owned by root, and write only root so thats probably where the problem lies. BillK On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 08:44 -0600, Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - procmail: Error while writing to /var/log/procmail

2006-02-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 08:44 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: What are the permissions of /var/log/procmail supposed to be? I get a log of Returned Mail emails griping about mail sent to accounts that exist on my server box (the content of which also comes without the error message). All the

Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions

2006-02-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 February 2006 06:45, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions': Alexander Skwar wrote: Shawn Haggett wrote: LVM would indeed be a solution. Instead of creating many disk partitions, you would simply create one large one the size of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 February 2006 07:37, Maarten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC': What tickles me the most about the current process is that one sometimes gets huge lists of updated files by updating a single package. A package which may have never been

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r1, nvidia-driver and fbsplash, splashutils

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hello, i solved my problems concering the nvidia-driver and the splash-theme delay. Nvidia-driver works after upgrading to 1.0.8178-r3 and the splash-theme starts immediately after the boot message as i updated my kernel to 2.6.15.gentoo-r4. But one problem still remains, the display is

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:37:41 +0100, Maarten wrote: What tickles me the most about the current process is that one sometimes gets huge lists of updated files by updating a single package. A package which may have never been used, or at least configured, by the user. For instance, updating

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Rohit Sharma schreef: Hi list, This is about my struggle to make my Trust 514DX soundcard work with Linux. Well, I don't have this specific card, but I do have a Typhoon Acustic 6, which is the same chipset: 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-12 Thread Gilberto Martins
Hi again ... ---cut--- Then, kindly selected GRUB, and did this simple /boot/grub.conf file: default 0 timeout 0 splashimage=(dhb0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Gentoo Linux 2.6.12.gentoo-r10 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/2.6.12-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/hdb3 Remove the boot part

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-12 Thread Norberto Bensa
Gilberto Martins wrote: Then, kindly selected GRUB, and did this simple /boot/grub.conf file: You meant /boot/grub/menu.conf (or /boot/grub/grub.conf) splashimage=(dhb0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz ...=(hd0,0)/ Also check the kernel filename, usually it's named another way. ...

[gentoo-user] Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Gilberto Martins
Sorry, folks. This is to correct my wrong post, for I haven`t changed the subject. Sorry for this, and thanks for Benno Schulenmberg, who kindly pointed me this mistake, in PVT. Thanks Benno. 2006/2/12, Gilberto Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi again ... ---cut--- Then, kindly selected GRUB,

[gentoo-user] Belkin F5D8010 Wireless Card

2006-02-12 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi All A friend would like to get his Belkin F5D8010 wireless card working under linux. Has anyone had any experience with it? It doesnt look like there is kernel support for it but ndiswrapper does support it. Would someone be able to offer some guidance as to how they got theirs working?

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 13:30 -0300, Gilberto Martins wrote: Hi again ... ---cut--- Then, kindly selected GRUB, and did this simple /boot/grub.conf file: default 0 timeout 0 splashimage=(dhb0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz think this is a typo^, mine

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Maarten
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:37:41 +0100, Maarten wrote: What tickles me the most about the current process is that one sometimes gets huge lists of updated files by updating a single package. A package which may have never been used, or at least configured, by the user. For

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Maarten
Rumen Yotov wrote: On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 14:37 +0100, Maarten wrote: Hi, Check cfg-update it's in portage, and i think it the better. i'm using it together with dispatch-conf but think if switching completely to 'cfg-update' (or mostly at least). Check the forums for additional info

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Gilberto Martins
Hi list again, and Norberto. Gilberto Martins wrote: Then, kindly selected GRUB, and did this simple /boot/grub.conf file: You meant /boot/grub/menu.conf (or /boot/grub/grub.conf) Sorry, it was a typeing mistake, I have verified it here, and it is as you corrected ...

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Gilberto Martins
Hi, On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 13:30 -0300, Gilberto Martins wrote: Hi again ... ---cut--- Then, kindly selected GRUB, and did this simple /boot/grub.conf file: default 0 timeout 0 splashimage=(dhb0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz think this is a typo^, mine

[gentoo-user] Display displacement

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hello, i solved my problems concering the nvidia-driver and the splash-theme delay. Nvidia-driver works after upgrading to 1.0.8178-r3 and the splash-theme starts immediately after the boot message as i updated my kernel to 2.6.15.gentoo-r4. But one problem still remains, the display is

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
Holly Bostick wrote: and it works fine, so I'll do my best to help. Yes you have. Million thanks for what can be best termed a good technical write up about the theory of Alsa plus this card. I shall try all that you have written and then get back - either at a halt, or to thank you.

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Maarten
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 12 February 2006 07:37, Maarten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC': What tickles me the most about the current process is that one sometimes gets huge lists of updated files by updating a single package. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread John Jolet
On 2/12/06 11:21 AM, Gilberto Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 13:30 -0300, Gilberto Martins wrote: Hi again ... ---cut--- Then, kindly selected GRUB, and did this simple /boot/grub.conf file: default 0 timeout 0 splashimage=(dhb0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Gilberto Martins
It can be called anything, but the file name you give it in /boot, of course, has to be the one you call out in the grub.conf line. So, you copy (for instance) arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/kernel-kernelversion (I usually also copy .config to /boot/config-kernelversion). That`s what I

[gentoo-user] Changing of transcode use flags

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hello, after the last sync portage wants to reinstall transcode with new use flags. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: gnome-extra/medusa ...done! [ebuild R ]

[gentoo-user] still can't print

2006-02-12 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, CUPS was a bust so I emerged lprng. No dice! F'rinstance, if I try to print from firefox a window opens saying Progress: Preparing... then after about 15s it disappears. Then silence, save for the weeping and wailing from yours truly. A look at File-Print-Printer

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 February 2006 23:21, Christoph Eckert wrote: The devices of interest are under /dev/sound and not under /dev/snd # ls -l /dev/sound total 0 crw-rw  1 root audio 14, 4 Feb 11 15:19 audio crw-rw  1 root audio 14, 3 Feb 11 15:19 dsp crw-rw  1 root audio 14, 0 Feb 11

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 February 2006 22:19, Christoph Eckert wrote: Sound is gone. Artsd complains that there is no /dev/dsp - and rightly so. All sound-related devices under /dev are gone. There are a couple of devices under /dev/snd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/snd $ ls -l total 0 crw-rw 1 root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread John Jolet
On 2/12/06 12:12 PM, Gilberto Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can be called anything, but the file name you give it in /boot, of course, has to be the one you call out in the grub.conf line. So, you copy (for instance) arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/kernel-kernelversion (I usually

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 February 2006 23:04, Abhay Kedia wrote: On Sunday 12 February 2006 00:59, Uwe Thiem wrote: Sound is gone. Artsd complains that there is no /dev/dsp - and rightly so. All sound-related devices under /dev are gone. There are a couple of devices under /dev/snd: The devices of interest

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Christoph Eckert
Did you raise the master and PCM sliders in alsamixer -c 1? What does that have to do with udev not creating the special device files? Nothing, just the default answer if there's no audio output. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Christoph Eckert
How would that help udev to create the relevant special device files? as seen before, your ALSA devices are present, so it doesn't seem to be an udev problem. ALSA apps don't output sound using device files. cat /proc/asound/cards should list your cards, ls -l /dev/snd/ should show the

Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions

2006-02-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jarry wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Shawn Haggett wrote: LVM would indeed be a solution. Instead of creating many disk partitions, you would simply create one large one the size of the disk. Yes, you could. But if you go that way, you don't have to create any partitions at all. Instead, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions

2006-02-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 12 February 2006 06:45, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions': Alexander Skwar wrote: Shawn Haggett wrote: LVM would indeed be a solution. Instead of creating many disk partitions, you would simply create

[gentoo-user] Display displacement

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hello, i solved my problems concering the nvidia-driver and the splash-theme delay. Nvidia-driver works after upgrading to 1.0.8178-r3 and the splash-theme starts immediately after the boot message as i updated my kernel to 2.6.15.gentoo-r4. But one problem still remains, the display is

[gentoo-user] Changing of transcode use flags

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hello, after the last sync portage wants to reinstall transcode with new use flags. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: gnome-extra/medusa ...done! [ebuild R ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

2006-02-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/9/2006 8:14 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:02:07 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Thanks for your reply. revdep-rebuild -p did not return anything but maybe that's because I already tried reinstalling ivtv. I don't have genlop on my system. What ebuild

[gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in problems

2006-02-12 Thread Statux
I've been having problems with mplayerplug-in for a long time and I'm finally getting around to asking for help about it :) It used to work fine, then came times when it would buffer so much of the stream, play some of it, then stop (it would apparently stop when the stream was completely

[gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

2006-02-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have Gentoo 2.6.13-r5 kernel running and have used ntpd in broadcastclient mode to keep its time in sync on my home network. The other day, the system suffered and abrupt shutdown due to a power outage. Ever since then, the system clock gains about 10 seconds every 5 minutes. Also, I

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
Quick questions - Holly. When I configure alsa support in my kernel and build modules using menuconfig and tell kernel to load modules automatically [or do manual loading using modules.autoload.d] 1. Do I still have to enable alsasound service using rc-update add alsasound default ?

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuilds gone to the happy hunting-grounds

2006-02-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 21:30 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, while trying to fix some other problems involving revdep-rebuild, I stumbled over some ebuilds no longer in portage but still installed on my system. How can I get rid of that stuff? I mean emerge --unmerge dead-package won't

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 February 2006 21:21, Christoph Eckert wrote: Did you raise the master and PCM sliders in alsamixer -c 1? What does that have to do with udev not creating the special device files? Nothing, just the default answer if there's no audio output. Well, default answers aren't all

Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions

2006-02-12 Thread Bo Andresen
On Sunday 12 February 2006 16:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: /hda1 -- /boot as big as you need it. I use 1G, but that's overkill for most people. Can't help being curious - how much of that space do you actually use?? I currently use 48 MB on /boot. -- Bo Andresen --

[gentoo-user] IDE PATA DMA removable disk = problems :-(

2006-02-12 Thread pat
Hi all, I have problem with DMA for my disk. I'll try to explain the situation. I have IBM TP T43 and I'm trying to setup the DMA for the disks/cdrom. The system disk is PATA disk (found at http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T43), so and there's a removable cd/dvd, and I've bougth an

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Rohit Sharma schreef: Quick questions - Holly. When I configure alsa support in my kernel and build modules using menuconfig and tell kernel to load modules automatically [or do manual loading using modules.autoload.d] 1. Do I still have to enable alsasound service using rc-update add

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Bo Andresen
On Sunday 12 February 2006 18:12, Gilberto Martins wrote: But it does not work yet ... 8( Perhaps you should post the output of: #ls -l /boot #cat /boot/grup/grub.conf -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice / Evolution display settings

2006-02-12 Thread Franta
Hi all I got OpenOffice2 installed last week. I use Evolution as my default mail frontend. Openoffice has now display settings for a (nearly) blind person. The icons in the taskbar aren't big. They are huge. I'd like to change some font settings in Evolution too. If I remember right this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Patrick Bloy
Bo Andresen schrieb: On Sunday 12 February 2006 18:12, Gilberto Martins wrote: But it does not work yet ... 8( Perhaps you should post the output of: #ls -l /boot #cat /boot/grup/grub.conf #cat /boot/grub/grub.conf ?! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread Alan E. Davis
I remember a little MSDOG shell utility called 4dos. It alllowed me to store comments that would appear alongside the filename. Can anyone point to a way to do this transparently and easily with bash? I don't want to run any extra programs if I can avoid it. I do like dired for emacs, though.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Bo Andresen
On Sunday 12 February 2006 22:59, Patrick Bloy wrote: Perhaps you should post the output of: #ls -l /boot #cat /boot/grup/grub.conf #cat /boot/grub/grub.conf ?! Eeh yes ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -l /boot/grub/menu.lst lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jun 1 2005 /boot/grub/menu.lst -

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in problems

2006-02-12 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 13 February 2006 01:39, Statux wrote: anyone have any ideas or similar experiences? Also, is there a different plugin that does the same thing? I've only known there to be mplayer's version. I like to use mozplugger for these tasks. http://mozplugger.mozdev.org/ It makes netscape

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread Franta
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 08:03 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: I remember a little MSDOG shell utility called 4dos. It alllowed me to store comments that would appear alongside the filename. Can anyone point to a way to do this transparently and easily with bash? I don't want to run any extra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Gilberto Martins
Hi again !!! Perhaps you should post the output of: #ls -l /boot #cat /boot/grup/grub.conf There it goes: livecd / # ls -l /boot total 2231 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Feb 11 09:22 boot - . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32414 Feb 12 16:06 config-gentoo-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 drwxr-xr-x 2 root

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 13 February 2006 00:29, Uwe Thiem wrote: No, they are not. That's OSS stuff and not present on my box since I don't use OSS. I have this in my /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules which is related to ALSA # alsa devices SUBSYSTEM==sound, GROUP=audio KERNEL==controlC[0-9]*,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Sunday 12 February 2006 23:03, Alan E. Davis wrote: I remember a little MSDOG shell utility called 4dos. It alllowed me to store comments that would appear alongside the filename. Can anyone point to a way to do this transparently and easily with bash? I don't want to run any extra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Bo Andresen
On Sunday 12 February 2006 23:23, Gilberto Martins wrote: livecd / # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf [SNIP] root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-gentoo-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/hdb3 [SNIP] mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot I'm not really certain about this but isn't hdb in Linux syntax supposed to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Maarten
Gilberto Martins wrote: livecd / # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf default 0 timeout 0 #splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Gentoo Linux 2.6.12.gentoo-r10 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-gentoo-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/hdb3 You say /dev/hdB, and above (hd0,0). Therefore implying that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Gilberto Martins schreef: Hi again !!! Perhaps you should post the output of: #ls -l /boot #cat /boot/grup/grub.conf There it goes: livecd / # ls -l /boot total 2231 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Feb 11 09:22 boot - . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32414 Feb 12 16:06

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 13:18 +, Paulo J. Matos wrote: I really wonder what type of hardware is the guy using to be able to run all that. :) From the speed at which some of the apps start, I'd say he's using some _very_ spiffy hardware. No doubt a very fast cpu, video card and HD's. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread John Jolet
Ummm... isn't there supposed to be a system.map for the kernel as well? I myself don't manually copy my kernels after compiling it; I use make install to do so, and I have the following files in /boot for all my kernels: I've never done anything with a system.map. I manually copy it

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice / Evolution display settings

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Franta schreef: Hi all snip Openoffice has now display settings for a (nearly) blind person. The icons in the taskbar aren't big. They are huge. I'd like to change some font settings in Evolution too. . Can anyone tell me which part of Gnome to install to be able to change the display

Re: [gentoo-user] Display displacement

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 18:21 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Hello, i solved my problems concering the nvidia-driver and the splash-theme delay. Nvidia-driver works after upgrading to 1.0.8178-r3 and the splash-theme starts immediately after the boot message as i updated my kernel to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Bo Andresen
On Monday 13 February 2006 00:07, Holly Bostick wrote: Gilberto Martins schreef: In any case, for each available kernel, make install copies 3 files (and makes 3 symlinks): config-kernel.version system.map-kernel.version vmlinuz-kernel.version the config file is just a convenience, but

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop

2006-02-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 13 February 2006 00:09, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 13:18 +, Paulo J. Matos wrote: I really wonder what type of hardware is the guy using to be able to run all that. :) From the speed at which some of the apps start, I'd say he's using some _very_ spiffy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
John Jolet schreef: Ummm... isn't there supposed to be a system.map for the kernel as well? I myself don't manually copy my kernels after compiling it; I use make install to do so, and I have the following files in /boot for all my kernels: I've never done anything with a system.map. I

[gentoo-user] Ethereal with GTK1.2 broken ebuild

2006-02-12 Thread Sadin Nurkic
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has any hints as to how to build ethereal with GTK-1.2 support only and not have GTK2. In past I used to have the USE set to: -gtk2 gtk, but this does not seem to work anymore - emerge/ebuild still builds it with GTK2. The permanent USE variable set in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread John Jolet
On 2/12/06 5:28 PM, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never done anything with a system.map. I manually copy it myself to allow me to name them whatever I want. Well, that's my point, sort of... what exactly do you copy, and has that file been copied to Gilberto's /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread CapSel
On 2/13/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet schreef: Ummm... isn't there supposed to be a system.map for the kernel as well? I myself don't manually copy my kernels after compiling it; I use make install to do so, and I have the following files in /boot for all my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: 4dos (and 4NT, still use it daily on win2000) had to deal with 8.3 filenames.. So it used an index file named descript.ion. Under linux that's not nessecary as you can just use long filenames including spaces.. While all of that is certainly true, it doesn't help

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread Alan E. Davis
On 2/13/06, Gerhard Hoogterp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under linux that's not nessecary as you can just use long filenames including spaces.. I do that, of course. It solves 95% of my issues. Somehow, I still miss that feature. Additional comments would help me, for example, when I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:47 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: On 2/13/06, Gerhard Hoogterp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under linux that's not nessecary as you can just use long filenames including spaces.. I do that, of course. It solves 95% of my issues. Somehow, I still miss that feature.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Bo Andresen
On Monday 13 February 2006 00:28, Holly Bostick wrote: From my /boot listing previously, you can see that even SUSE creates a system.map in the /boot folder, and that's a precompiled kernel (so it's not like it's copying manually or via make install). So I kinda suspect that it's a needed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Holly Bostick
CapSel schreef: On 2/13/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ummm... isn't there supposed to be a system.map for the kernel as well? snip OT?? AFAIK system.map is not needed for lilo and not for grub. I don't have it and all works without any errors or warnings about it. No, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread John Jolet
On 2/12/06 6:10 PM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:47 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: On 2/13/06, Gerhard Hoogterp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under linux that's not nessecary as you can just use long filenames including spaces.. I do that, of course. It

Re: [gentoo-user] still can't print

2006-02-12 Thread Manuel McLure
On Sunday 12 February 2006 11:05, maxim wexler wrote: 127.0.0.1 localhost sarawak # IPV6 versions of localhost and co Try 127.0.0.1 sarawak localhost (i.e. list the hostname of the machine first) -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Gilberto Martins
That's amazing, and that's what I am telling my wife as I read (with her) all this messages, and show her how important is that we support Free Software. The need of knowing more, by teaching the newbies. Thanks for all interest of each one who helped. Maarten: If you have no hda, or if hda is

[gentoo-user] lm_sensors problem

2006-02-12 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi all, I had installed lm_sensors and kernel modules, now when I run sensors command I got: monstro ~ # sensors it8712-isa-0290 Adapter: ISA adapter VCore 1: +1.41 V (min = +1.42 V, max = +1.57 V) ALARM VCore 2: +0.00 V (min = +2.40 V, max = +2.61 V) ALARM +3.3V: +6.53 V (min

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/12/06, Gilberto Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's amazing, and that's what I am telling my wife as I read (with her) all this messages, and show her how important is that we support Free Software. The need of knowing more, by teaching the newbies. Thanks for all interest of each one

[gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors problem

2006-02-12 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 13 February 2006 03:26, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi all, I had installed lm_sensors and kernel modules, now when I run sensors command I got: monstro ~ # sensors it8712-isa-0290 Adapter: ISA adapter VCore 1: +1.41 V (min = +1.42 V, max = +1.57 V) ALARM VCore 2: +0.00

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread Gilberto Martins
Most modern BIOS have the option to boot from a lot of devices, you can check if your BIOS have options to boot from hd1, or primary slave, whatever your BIOS call it, just enter the SETUP and check for it. Yeah, it is already configured to start the first Hard Disk. LILO won't help you,

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice / Evolution display settings

2006-02-12 Thread Franta
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 00:17 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Franta schreef: Hi all snip Openoffice has now display settings for a (nearly) blind person. The icons in the taskbar aren't big. They are huge. I'd like to change some font settings in Evolution too. . Can anyone tell me

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